Carbon Footprints-
Celebrities and politicians have struck gold with their rhetoric on carbon credits. Be warned: there will come a time when they attempt to force businesses and people to purchase these credits to offset some subjective notion of the size of each person's unique carbon footprint.
First, please know that I think people have the right to buy the biggest home they can afford, fly in the most leisurely way money can buy and eat the most wonderful food they can enjoy. They should not feel guilty about spending their money in any legal way they see fit.
What they should not do is pretend they care about the environment or push for policies that make the rest of us struggle while they (or one of their accountants) write a check to cover their wasteful lifestyles.
These people live lives the average person cannot even begin to comprehend. Their homes are bigger, and use more energy, than some neighborhoods. Their birthday parties and weddings, held in locations around the world, cost more money than many people will spend in a lifetime, even if they face catastrophic health conditions like cancer. The attendees often travel to the parties on private planes so as to avoid hobnobbing with the real people who have so blindly provided these morons with the money to live their insane lifestyles.
Not to worry about these "Inconvenient Truths" as they have stumbled upon a perfect solution: They can offset their ridiculously wasteful behavior by purchasing carbon credits. They will plant trees, build wind farms and I am sure make millions of dollars helping appease the guilt of liberals. What they (note the exception of Prince Charles: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4380658.stm) will not do is change their lifestyles other than to create the illusion they are taking responsibility for their carbon footprints.
A site that promotes this new found solution to appease the guilt of the wealthy liberals and Governor Schwarzenegger:
http://www.terrapass.com/about/index.html
We should all be good stewards of our environment and avoid waste where we can. We should also beware of ideas that may dramatically impact the quality of our lives with little or no impact on the actual problem liberals seek to solve.
Celebrities and politicians have struck gold with their rhetoric on carbon credits. Be warned: there will come a time when they attempt to force businesses and people to purchase these credits to offset some subjective notion of the size of each person's unique carbon footprint.
First, please know that I think people have the right to buy the biggest home they can afford, fly in the most leisurely way money can buy and eat the most wonderful food they can enjoy. They should not feel guilty about spending their money in any legal way they see fit.
What they should not do is pretend they care about the environment or push for policies that make the rest of us struggle while they (or one of their accountants) write a check to cover their wasteful lifestyles.
These people live lives the average person cannot even begin to comprehend. Their homes are bigger, and use more energy, than some neighborhoods. Their birthday parties and weddings, held in locations around the world, cost more money than many people will spend in a lifetime, even if they face catastrophic health conditions like cancer. The attendees often travel to the parties on private planes so as to avoid hobnobbing with the real people who have so blindly provided these morons with the money to live their insane lifestyles.
Not to worry about these "Inconvenient Truths" as they have stumbled upon a perfect solution: They can offset their ridiculously wasteful behavior by purchasing carbon credits. They will plant trees, build wind farms and I am sure make millions of dollars helping appease the guilt of liberals. What they (note the exception of Prince Charles: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4380658.stm) will not do is change their lifestyles other than to create the illusion they are taking responsibility for their carbon footprints.
A site that promotes this new found solution to appease the guilt of the wealthy liberals and Governor Schwarzenegger:
http://www.terrapass.com/about/index.html
We should all be good stewards of our environment and avoid waste where we can. We should also beware of ideas that may dramatically impact the quality of our lives with little or no impact on the actual problem liberals seek to solve.
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posted by Susan Shogren Smith at
3/08/2007 01:46:00 PM
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